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Association of Corvair Nuts Volume 39 Issue No. 07
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August 2014
Association of Corvair Nuts Rochester, NY CORSA Chapter 148
Volume No. 39, Issue No. 07
ACORN OFFICERS President – Paul Abel
Vice President – Dave Shoemaker Secretary – Event Host Treasurer
– Jeff Clark
APPOINTED POSITIONS
Newsletter Editor – Steve Dietrick Web Master – Marissa
Andolino
Membership – Jeff Clark Historian – Paul Abel
Tech Session Cordinator – Open
ACORN NEWS Publication of the Rochester, NY
“Association of Corvair Nuts” Contact
[email protected]
Greetings ACORNs,
It’s hard to believe we are halfway through the summer of
2014!
Seems like just yesterday that we were dreaming of warmer
weather.
Summer being in full swing, I hope everyone is busy working on
and
driving your Corvairs. I’ve been driving mine so much that I
haven’t
done much work to them. I will get to that laundry list before
cooler
weather sets in.
July was a kind of slow month for us. Out of 6 scheduled events,
5 had
question marks on my calendar. We participated in 2 as a club.
The 4th
of July parade in Canandaigua was sort of up in the air. There
was an
informal “show up if you want” air about it. I’m not sure why
we
weren’t more organized for this event. We ended up with 3 cars,
Ellis’,
Boudway and myself. Was there another? I’m sure it was just the
3
cars. I was disappointed. The next day, Friday the 5th was the
car show
at Van Bortle Chevrolet. We did better at that one with 6 cars
showing.
There were 4 other events on the calendar that didn’t happen.
Come
on people! Out of thirty-some members this is the best we can
do?
The future of our club depends on member participation.
In other news, The Nasman and Ellis parts stashes have been
pretty
much liquidated. What was left over after the garage sales went
to our
new member ( who’s name escapes me…sorry ) in Spencerport. This,
I
am told, will be the new home of the club parts stash. I believe
Tom
Nasman has a few NOS items left for sale, mostly for late
models.
Events scheduled for August include; The GVAC show at
Roberts
Weslyan College on the 3rd, Annual picnic and white elephant
sale
(location tba) and the Super Cruise night in Perry on Thursday
the 21st.
We also have a date scheduled for a tech session, with no one
signed
up, for Saturday the 23rd. That’s it in a nutshell. I do hope to
see some
more of you at our functions.
Paul.
mailto:[email protected]
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ACORN 2014 CALENDAR
DATE DAY EVENT HOST STATUS
Jan. 12 Sun. 2014 Planning Meeting Jeff Clark Complete
Feb.16 Sun. Valentine Diner Sande & Dave Shoemaker
Complete
Mar.16 Sun. NY Museum of Transportation Rochester
Lew Gurley Complete
April 12 Sat. Strong Museum of Play Dave Ellis Complete
May 03 Sat. Tech Session @ MCC Bill Boadway Complete
May 17 Sat. Riter Restoration Shop Tour Jim Cleveland
Complete
May 25 Sat. Tech Session Paul Abel Canceled
June 6 7 & 8
Fri.- Sun.
Syracuse Recall Event Central New York Corvair Club
June 15 Sun. Sonnenberg Gardens Father’s Day Car Show –
Canandaigua, NY
Show-up event
Complete
June 21 Sat. Tech Session Dave Ellis
July 4 Fri. 4th of July Parade – Canandaigua Complete
July 13 Sun. Archectural Tour - Buffalo Jeff Clark Canceled
July 26 Sun. Tech Session – need work?
Aug. 17 Sun. Annual Club Picnic And White Elephant Sale
Pat Dietrick RSVP
Aug.23 Sat. Tech Session – need work?
Sept.06 Sun. Tech Session – need work?
Sept.14 Sun. Corvairs on the Hill Fred Marsh RSVP
Oct.12 Sun. Fall Color Tour TBD
Nov.16 Sun. Holiday/Year End Dinner Sande & Dave
Shoemaker
RSVP
August
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September
S M T W T F S
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Other Events, Cruise Nites, etc. August 3 Genese Valley
AACA…Robert Weslyan College August 21 Silver Lake Super
Cruise…Silver Lake Drive-in, Perry Tuesday Evenings: Burgundy Basin
Inn, Burgundy Basin Wednesday Evenings: Log Cabin Restaurant,
Macedon Thursday Evenings: Wegmans, Canandaigua
Other events, cruise nites…….Let your editor know.
Tech Sessions are scheduled
For August 23 and again September 06 Does anyone need work done
to their
Corvair Or Help with their
Corvair. Speak up, club
members are here to help.
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Wikipedias take on the Corvair
The Chevrolet Corvair was a compact automobile produced by the
Chevrolet division of General Motors for
the 1960–1969 model years. It was the only American designed,
mass-produced passenger car to feature
a rear-mounted air-cooled engine.
The Corvair range included a two-door coupe, convertible,
four-door sedan, and four-door station wagon
body styles, as well as in passenger van, commercial van, and
pickup truck derivatives. The range
competed with imported cars such as the original Volkswagen
Beetle, as well as the Ford Falcon, Plymouth
Valiant, and Studebaker Lark, that were new entries in the
compact car market segment that was
established in the U.S. by the 1950 Nash Rambler, which was
reintroduced in 1958 as the Rambler
American.
The Corvair's legacy was affected by controversy surrounding its
handling, which led to its inclusion in Ralph
Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed. Subsequently, in 1972, Texas
A&M University conducted a safety
commission report on the Corvair for the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration; it found that the
1960–1963 Corvairs possessed no greater potential for loss of
control than its contemporaries in extreme
situations.
History
In 1952, Edward N. Cole, known as Ed Cole, was promoted to chief
engineer of the Chevrolet Motor
Division. Four years later, in July 1956, he was named general
manager of Chevrolet — GM's largest
automotive division — and a vice president of General Motors. At
Chevrolet, Cole pushed for many of the
major engineering and design advancements introduced in the
Chevrolet car and truck lines between 1955
and 1962. He was the moving force behind the development and
production of the rear-engined, air-cooled
Corvair. Despite its infamous history, the Corvair was a
ground-breaking small car in its day. As chief
engineer, he was heavily involved in the development of the
Corvette sports car. He is also known as the
"father" of the small block Chevy V8, one of the most celebrated
engines in automotive history.
Until 1960, the "Big Three" domestic auto manufacturers (General
Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) produced
only one basic size of passenger cars: large. However, a
successful modern "compact car" market
segmentwas established in the U.S. by the 1950 Nash Rambler.
Moreover, imports from Europe, such as
Volkswagen, Renault, and Fiat, showed that there was demand in
the U.S. for small cars, often as a second
car or an alternative for budget-minded consumers. While the
"Big Three" continued to introduce ever-larger
cars during the 1950s, the newly formed American Motors
Corporation (AMC) focused its business strategy
on smaller-sized and fuel-efficient automobiles, years before
there was a real need for them.[7] Because it
was a small company compared to the Big Three U.S. automakers,
AMC positioned itself as a "dinosaur-
fighter" and its compact-sized Rambler models rose to third
place among domestic automobile
sales. American Motors also reincarnated its predecessor
company's smallest Nash model as the "new"
1958 Rambler American for a second model run, an almost unheard
of phenomenon in automobile history.
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History (continued)
During 1959 and 1960, the Big Three automakers planned to
introduce their own "compact" cars. Most of
these designs were scaled-down versions of the conventional
American car, using four- or six-cylinder
engines instead of V8s, and with bodies about 20% smaller than
their standard cars.
An exception to this strategy was the Chevrolet Corvair. Led by
General Manager Cole, Chevrolet designed
a revolutionary new car. It was powered by an air-cooled
horizontal six-cylinder engine made almost entirely
out of aluminum. The engine was mounted in the rear of the car,
driving the rear wheels through a compact
automatic transaxle. Suspension was independent at all four
wheels. There was no conventional frame, it
was the first Unibody built by Fisher Body. The tires were an
entirely new wide low-profile design. The
styling was unconventional for Detroit: subtle and elegant, with
no tailfins or chrome grille. Its engineering
earned numerous patents, while Time magazine put Ed Cole and the
Corvair on the cover, and Motor
Trend named the Corvair as the 1960 "Car of the Year".
Overview]
The Corvair's sales exceeded 200,000 for each of its first six
model years. The rear-engine design offered
packaging and economy advantages, providing the car with a lower
silhouette, flat passenger compartment
floor, removing the need for power assists, and offered
improvements in ride quality, traction, and braking
balance. The design also attracted customers of other makes,
primarily imports. The Corvair stood out, with
engineering significantly different from other American
offerings. It used GM's Z-body, with design and
engineering that advanced the rear-engine, rear-wheel drive
layout pioneered by cars including the Tatra
77,Tucker Torpedo, Porsche 356, Volkswagen Beetle, Renault
Dauphine, and NSU Prinz—and employed
by the concurrent and short-lived Hino Contessa.
The Corvair's powerplant was an aluminum air-cooled 140 cu in
(2.3 L) flat-six (later enlarged, first to 145
and then to 164 cubic inches). The first Corvair engine produced
80 hp (60 kW; 81 PS). Power peaked with
the 1965–66 turbocharged 180 hp (134 kW; 182 PS) Corsa engine
option. The first generation
model's swing axle rear suspension, invented and patented by
engineer Edmund Rumpler, offered a
comfortable ride but raised safety concerns associated with the
car's handling stability, and was replaced in
1965 with a fully independent rear suspension similar to the
Corvette Sting Ray.
The Corvair represented several breakthroughs in design for
mass-produced Detroit vehicles, with
1,786,243 cars produced between 1960 and 1969.
Continued next month
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ACORNS ANNUAL PICNIC and WHITE ELEPHANT SALE, August 17,
2014
Where: Gypsum Mills Community Center, 6392 Plastermill Rd.,
Victor, NY 14564 When: Sunday August 17, 12:00 – 4:00 The club will
be providing, Hot Dogs, Hamburgs, Italian Sausage, Buns, Condiments
& water. Pat will be preparing her world famous Potato Salad.
Please bring a dish to pass. Let Pat know what you will be bringing
so as not have duplications. Bring your chairs for outdoor seating,
we will move inside should it rain or be to hot. Bring your FOR
SALE items (Corvair and non-Corvair) with all proceeds going to the
club Treasury. Please RSVP to Pat at (585)742-8579
Corvair Parts For Sale Tom will accept reasonable offers, use
your Clarks Catalog as a guide.
4 Delco Guide rear lens 5958761
2 Delco Guide front lens 5956199 2 Delco Guide front lens
5956200
4 General Motors Corsa hub cap inserts number Gr5.871
3878322
4 wheel aluminum well moulding s for 1966-1969 in GM
wrappers
1 196 rear aluminum grill cover
1 late model speedometer cable for Corsa
I have other parts used and new parts including rubber parts and
window fuzzies.
Tom Nasman,
Contact me at [email protected] or 585-621-8988
mailto:[email protected]
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FOR SALE and MARKETPLACE
AA
For Sale – Price Reduced Marina Blue 1966 Turbo Corvair Coupe
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$17,000 Full Concours restoration. CORSA Concours d’Elegance
Winner. This head turning car is
turn key and just needs to be loved and driven. Sam &
Marissa Andolino
[email protected]
Our 41st Year! Get the New 2013-2018 Catalog
If you did not get our new
catalog in 2013,
you can get one free on your
first $50 order during 2014. (Additional catalogs $3 with an
order)
The new Catalog includes parts from the
last 5
Supplements as well as 100’s of
improvements.
This is our most major revision ever.
Clark’s Corvair Parts®
400 Mohawk Trail, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
(413)625-9776 www.corvair.com
Car broke down? Need to get a car to the shop/ home? Call Dave
Shoemaker (585) 393-1912. Dave has a trailer with winch.
AM Radio repairs : Retired Electrical Engineer, repairs ,
cleans, and tunes AM car radios, for a little extra cash and as a
hobby. Located just south of Canandaigua. Call Len at (585)
396-3454
FOR SALE 1964 Corvair exterior trim, NORS in original packing
and cartons.
NORS in original packing and cartons, Clark's Corvair catalog
numbers.
C7709L&R or C7709CL&CR Pr. Of door sills. Don't know if
for coupe or convertible
C7708 Pr. of rocker panel trim C7708R.Pr. Of rocker trim
retainers
C279A Set of 4 fender trim pieces C276AX Set of 4 “Dog Legs”
C10016 Pr. Of rear floor mats for 4-door
Will sell only as a lot: $600.00 FOB Canandaigua, NY Contact
Bill Boudway @ (585) 394-6172
For Sale: 1964 Corvair Convertible Fully Restored, 20K miles,
yellow
3 speed manual Transmission Car is located near Du Bois, PA
$11,500 Negotiable Contact: Bob Morris (814)583-5425
mailto:[email protected]://www.corvair.com/
